Fonelas is a municipality in the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. It lies within the comarca of Guadix, in the northern part of the province.
According to the 2006 census conducted by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE), the town had a population of 1,145 inhabitants. Like many municipalities in this part of Granada, it is a small, sparsely populated settlement.
Fonelas is best known for the Fonelas P-1 palaeontological site, a Lower Pleistocene fossil locality discovered in the Guadix-Baza basin. The site has yielded a rich assemblage of vertebrate remains and is noted for its contribution to the study of early Pleistocene fauna in Europe.